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Select a Category:- Components
- Curriculum by Grade Level
- Curriculum by Math Content
- The Currriculum and the CCSS
- Curriculum in the Classroom
- Implementing the Curriculum and Professional Development
- Developing the Curriculum
- Newsletter Archives
- Articles, Papers, and Reports
- Resources
- Math Games and Activities
- 1st Edition Information
Components
- Program Components PDF
- Shapes software PDF
- Logo Paths Software PDF
- Materials Kit by Grade PDF
- Completer Kit by Grade PDF
- Card Package by Grade PDF
- Chart of Hands-On Components PDF
- Materials as Tools for Learning PDF
- Children's Literature K-2 PDF
- Children's Literature 3-5 PDF
- Grade 1: Resource Master-Ten-Frame Cards PDF
- Grade 2: Resource Master-More Challenging Story Problems PDF
- Grade 2: Resource Master-Family Letter: About the Mathematics in this Unit PDF
- Grade 2: Resource Master-Family Letter: Related Activities to Try at Home PDF
- Grade 3: Resource Master-Assessment: Subtraction Strategies PDF
- Grade 3: Resource Master-Family Letter: Related Activities to Try at Home PDF
- Grade 4: Resource Master-Family Letter: Learning Multiplication Combinations PDF
- Grade 5: Resource Master-Family Letter: About Mathematics Homework PDF
- Grade 5: Resource Master-Multiplication Compare PDF
- Grade 5: Student Activity Book-Problems Involving Teams PDF
- Grade 5: Student Activity Book-Multiplication Compare Recording Sheet PDF
- Grade 5: Student Activity Book-Number Puzzles PDF
- Grade 5: Student Activity Book-Multiplication Combinations 1 PDF
- Grade 3: Student Math Handbook-Measurement Tools PDF
- Grade 5: Student Math Handbook-Multiplication Compare PDF
- Grade 2: Answer Key PDF
- Grade 4: Spanish Companion-Unit 1, Session 1.1-Cosas que estan en matrices PDF
- Grade 1: Carpeta de recursos-Carta a la familia: Sobre las matematicas de esta unidad PDF
- Grade 4: Carpeta de recursos-La fabrica de embalajes PDF
- Grade 1: Cuaderno de activitidades-Pasos de nino en casa PDF
- Grade 4: Cuaderno de activitidades-Datos Misteriosos A PDF
- Grade 4: Cuaderno de activitidades-Puntos de interes PDF
- Grade 1: Manual de Matematicas para el estudiante-Lanzar y anotar PDF
- Grade 4: Manual de Matematicas para el estudiante-Trabajar con datos PDF
- Understanding the Instructional Plans PDF
- Math Content Correlations Prototype PDF
- New Session Prototype PDF
Spanish Components
Investigations and the CCSS
Curriculum by Grade Level
Grade Level Overviews
- Kindergarten Overview PDF
- 1st Grade Overview PDF
- 2n Grade Overview PDF
- 3rd Grade Overview PDF
- 4th Grade Overview PDF
- 5th Grade Overview PDF
Math Content by Grade Level
- Kindergarten Math Content PDF
- Grade 1 Math Content PDF
- Grade 2 Math Content PDF
- Grade 3 Math Content PDF
- Grade 4 Math Content PDF
- Grade 5 Math Content PDF
- Math Content K-5 PDF
Unit Summaries
- Kindergarten Unit Summaries PDF
- Grade 1 Unit Summaries PDF
- Grade 2 Unit Summaries PDF
- Grade 3 Unit Summaries PDF
- Grade 4 Unit Summaries PDF
- Grade 5 Unit Summaries PDF
- Unit Summaries K-5 PDF
Scope and Sequence
- Kindergarten Scope and Sequence PDF
- Grade 1 Scope and Sequence PDF
- Grade 2 Scope and Sequence PDF
- Grade 3 Scope and Sequence PDF
- Grade 4 Scope and Sequence PDF
- Grade 5 Scope and Sequence PDF
- Scope and Sequence K-5 PDF
Sample Sessions
- Kindergarten: Session1.3-Counting Jar PDF
- Kindergarten: Resource Master-Grab and Count PDF
- Kindergarten: Student Math Handbook-Counting Jar PDF
- Kindergarten: Session1.6-Does Order Matter When You Count? PDF
- Kindergarten: Student Math Handbook-Counting PDF
- Kindergarten: Algebra Connections in This Unit PDF
- Kindergarten: Dialogue Box-Does Order Matter? PDF
- Grade 1: Session1.1-How Many of Each? PDF
- Grade 1: Resource Master-Start With Get To Cards (Set A) PDF
- Grade 1: Student Activity Book-Nine Toys: How Many of Each? PDF
- Grade 1: Student Activity Book-Using a Calendar PDF
- Grade 1: Resource Master-Family Letter about the Mathematics in This Unit PDF
- Grade 1: Student Math Handbook-Counting Forward and Counting Back PDF
- Grade 1: Student Math Handbook-How Many of Each? PDF
- Grade 1: Teacher Note-About the How Many of Each? Problems in This Unit PDF
- Grade 1: Teacher Note-Finding Relationships Among Solutions PDF
- Grade 1: Dialogue Box-Do We Have All the Combinations? PDF
- Grade 2: Session1.1-Story Problems with Stickers PDF
- Grade 2: Resource Master-Stickers: Strips and Singles PDF
- Grade 2: Student Activity Book-Sticker Problems PDF
- Grade 2: Resource Master-100 Chart PDF
- Grade 2: Student Activity Book-Telling Time Problems PDF
- Grade 2: Resource Master-Family Letter about the Mathematics in This Unit PDF
- Grade 2: Student Math Handbook-Place Value: Single Stickers and Strips of 10 PDF
- Grade 2: Student Math Handbook-Another Addition Story Problem PDF
- Grade 2: Teacher Note-Place Value in Grade 2 PDF
- Grade 2: Teacher Note-Stickers: A Context for Place Value PDF
- Grade 2: Dialogue Box-Adding With Stickers PDF
- Grade 2: Dialogue Box-Is It 2 Or 20? PDF
- Grade 3: Session3.3-How Far From 100? PDF
- Grade 3: Student Activity Book-How Far from 100? Recording Sheet PDF
- Grade 3: Student Activity Book-Related Problem Sets PDF
- Grade 3: Resource Master-Digit Cards PDF
- Grade 3: Resource Master-How Far From 100? PDF
- Grade 3: Student Math Handbook-Tools To Represent Subtraction Problems PDF
- Grade 3: Student Math Handbook-Strategies For Solving Subtraction Problems PDF
- Grade 3: Dialogue Box-How Far From 100? PDF
- Grade 4: Session2.3-Multiple Turn Over PDF
- Grade 4: Resource Master-Multiple Turn Over PDF
- Grade 4: Resource Master-Multiple Cards PDF
- Grade 4: Resource Master-Muliple Turn Over Recording Sheet PDF
- Grade 4: Student Activity Book-Distance Problems PDF
- Grade 4: Student Activity Book-Practicing With Multiplication Cards PDF
- Grade 4: Student Math Handbook-Multiplication Combinations PDF
- Grade 4: Dialogue Box-Identifying Factors and Multiples in Multiple Turn Over PDF
- Grade 5: Session3.3-Solving More Division Problems PDF
- Grade 5: Student Activity Book -Division Problems PDF
- Grade 5: Student Activity Book -Story Problems: School Supplies PDF
- Grade 5: Resource Master-Quick Images PDF
- Grade 5: Student Math Handbook-Division Strategies PDF
- Grade 5: Teacher Note-Division Strategies PDF
- Grade 5: Teacher Note-Developing Computation Strategies That Make Sense PDF
Components Information
- Kindergarten Component Information PDF
- Grade 1 Component Information PDF
- Grade 2 Component Information PDF
- Grade 3 Component Information PDF
- Grade 4 Component Information PDF
- Grade 5 Component Information PDF
- Component Information K-5 PDF
- Kindergarten Pacing Information PDF
- Grade 1 Pacing Information PDF
- Grade 2 Pacing Information PDF
- Grade 3 Pacing Information PDF
- Grade 4 Pacing Information PDF
- Grade 5 Pacing Information PDF
- Pacing Information K-5 PDF
- Teaching a New Kindergarten Unit PDF
- Teaching a New Grade 1 Unit PDF
- Teaching a New Grade 2 Unit PDF
- Teaching a New Grade 3 Unit PDF
- Teaching a New Grade 4 Unit PDF
- Teaching a New Grade 5 Unit PDF
- Teaching a New Unit K-5 PDF
- Comparing 1st and 2nd Edition Kindergarten Units PDF
- Comparing 1st and 2nd Edition Grade 1 Units PDF
- Comparing 1st and 2nd Edition Grade 2 Units PDF
- Comparing 1st and 2nd Edition Grade 3 Units PDF
- Comparing 1st and 2nd Edition Grade 4 Units PDF
- Comparing 1st and 2nd Edition Grade 5 Units PDF
- Comparing 1st and 2nd Edition Units K-5 PDF
- Counting and the Number System PDF
- Addition and Subtraction PDF
- Multiplication and Division PDF
- Rational Numbers PDF
- Geometry PDF
- Measurement PDF
- Data and Probability PDF
- Patterns and Functions PDF
- Place Value PDF
- Early Algebra PDF
- Computational Algorithms and Procedures PDF
- Developing Fluency with the Facts PDF
- Algebra in the Revision PDF
- CCSS Instructional Plans at Kindergarten PDF
- CCSS Instructional Plans at 1st Grade PDF
- CCSS Instructional Plans at 2nd Grade PDF
- CCSS Instructional Plans at 3rd Grade PDF
- CCSS Instructional Plans at 4th Grade PDF
- CCSS Instructional Plans at 5th Grade PDF
- CCSS Sample Session at Kindergarten PDF
- CCSS Sample Session at 1st Grade PDF
- CCSS Sample Session at 2nd Grade PDF
- CCSS Sample Session at 3rd Grade PDF
- CCSS Sample Session at 4th Grade PDF
- CCSS Sample Session at 5th Grade PDF
- Investigations and the CCSS at Kindergarten PDF
- Investigations and the CCSS at 1st Grade PDF
- Investigations and the CCSS at 2nd Grade PDF
- Investigations and the CCSS at 3rd Grade PDF
- Investigations and the CCSS at 4th Grade PDF
- Investigations and the CCSS at 5th Grade PDF
- Investigations and the Math Practices PDF
- Correlations between Investigations and the CCSS at Kindergarten PDF
- Correlations between Investigations and the CCSS at 1st Grade PDF
- Correlations between Investigations and the CCSS at 2nd Grade PDF
- Correlations between Investigations and the CCSS at 3rd Grade PDF
- Correlations between Investigations and the CCSS at 4th Grade PDF
- Correlations between Investigations and the CCSS at 5th Grade PDF
- Kindergarten Case: Setting Up the Mathematics Community PDF
- Grade 1 Case: Setting Up the Mathematics Community PDF
- Grade 2 Case: Setting Up the Mathematics Community PDF
- Grade 3 Case: Setting Up the Mathematics Community PDF
- Grade 4 Case: Setting Up the Mathematics Community PDF
- Grade 5 Case: Setting Up the Mathematics Community PDF
- Discussing Mathematical Ideas PDF
- The Teacher's Role in Investigations PDF
- Special Needs Students and Classroom Discussions PDF
- The Role of Math Workshop PDF
- Making Math Workshop Work PDF
- The Role of Games PDF
- Using Games as Tools for Learning PDF
- Kindergarten Case (Accomodations for Learning) PDF
- First Grade Case (Accommodations for Learning) PDF
- Second Grade Case (Language and Representation) PDF
- Third Grade Case (Language and Representation) PDF
- Fourth Grade Case (Language and Representation) PDF
- Fifth Grade Case (Setting Up the Math Community) PDF
- Practice and Review Essay PDF
- Materials as a Tool for Learning PDF
- Array Cards PDF
- Calculators PDF
Pacing Information
Teaching a New Unit
Comparing 1st and 2nd Edition Units
Curriculum by Math Content
The Curriculum and the CCSS
Curriculum in the Classroom
Implementing the Curriculum and Professional Development
Developing the Curriculum
Newsletter Archives
- Issue 7 January 2012
- Issue 6 September 2011
- Issue 5 June 2011
- Issue 4 January 2011
- Issue 3 September 2010
- Issue 2 May 2010
- Issue 1 February 2010
Articles, Papers, and Reports
- 7 Ways to Add Math to Everyday Play
- Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics
- Algebra in the K-5 Classroom: Learning Opportunities for Students and Teachers PDF
- America Counts
- Analyzing Children's Length Strategies with Two-Dimensional Tasks: What Counts For Length?
- Building Blocks of Early Childhood Mathematics PDF
- Building Blocks for Early Childhood Mathematics PDF
- Building Blocks for Young Children's Mathematical Development PDF
- Bringing Math to Families PDF
- A Case for a Logo-Based Elementary School Geometry Curriculum
- Challenges for Teachers Attempting to Integrate a Mathematics Innovation
- Changing the Elementary Mathemathics Curriculum: Obstacles and Challenges
- Children's Concepts of Average and Representativeness PDF
- Children's Spontaneous Representations of Changing Situations
- Computers and Mathematical Assessment
- Computers in Early Childhood Education PDF
- Computers Support Algebraic Thinking
- "Concrete" Manipulatives, Concrete Ideas
- Constructing Geometric Concepts in Logo
- Constructivist Learning and Teaching
- Developing Computational Fluency with Whole Number in the Elementary Grades
- The Earliest Geometry PDF
- Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education
- The Future of Educational Computing Research: The Case of Computer Programming PDF
- The Geometric World of Young Children PDF
- Geometry and Proof
- Graphing Software: The Place of Computers in an Elementary Data Analysis Curriculum
- Help Your Child Think Big!
- Helping Children Learn Mathematics
- How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience,and School
- Improving Mathematics Education: Resources for Decision Making
- Is It 2 More or 2 Less? Algebra in the Elementary Classroom
- Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment
- The Mathematical Miseducation of America's Youth
- Mathematics of Change: Ins and Outs or Ups and Downs
- Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: Not a Beginning, Not an End
- Mathematics in the Preschool PDF
- Mathematics for Young Children
- Metacognition, Learning, and Educational Computer Environments
- Middles, Means, and In-Betweens: The Paper Clip Game
- (Mis?)Constructing Constructivism
- My Turn: A Talk with the Logo Turtle
- A Nation at Risk
- Network of Influences in an Implementation of a Mathematics Curriculum Innovation
- Opportunities to Observe PDF
- Patterns in the Multiplication Table
- Playing with Computers, Playing with Ideas
- Proof in the Elementary Grades PDF
- Preschool and Kindergarten Mathematics: A National Conference PDF
- A Process Approach to Mathematics: Mathematics as Communication
- Research on Logo: A Decade of Progress
- Rethinking Concrete Manipulatives
- The Role of Curriculum in Teacher Development
- The Role of Technology in Early Childhood Learning PDF
- Schools, Families, and Math
- Students' Development of Length Concepts in a Logo-Based Unit on Geometric Paths PDF
- Subitizing: What Is It? Why Teach It? PDF
- Teaching Length Measurement: Research Challenges PDF
- Translating from Research into Mathematics Classrooms: Mathematics and Special Needs Students
- Technology and school change: New lamps for old?
- Technology in Early Childhood Mathematics: Building Blocks as an Innovative Technology-Based Curriculum PDF
- Using Spatial Imagery in Geometric Reasoning
- Viewpoint: We Need Integrated Research and Software Development
- What's in a Question? PDF
- What Kind of Educational Computer Games Would Girls Like?
- Where's the Math in Computer Games?
- Your Child's Geometric World
- Young Children and Technology
- Young Children's Concepts of Shape PDF
Resources
- Websites for Families and Caregivers
- Policy and Practice
- Equity Projects
- Organizations and Projects Working with Families
- Professional Educational Organizations
- National and Regional Implementation Centers
- Publishers and Resource Organizations